In a circular economy material loops are closed by recycling of pre-consumer manufacturing
scrap/residues, urban mining of End-of-Life products and landfill mining of historic (and …

Landfills have historically been seen as the ultimate solution for storing waste at minimum
cost. It is now a well-known fact that such deposits have related implications such as long …

Much research has focused on improving the treatment of municipal solid waste (MSW) to
obtain usable energy. Pyrolysis technology can not only reduce the volume of MSW, but also …

The main objective of “Enhanced landfill mining” is the valorization of the excavated waste
materials that have been stored in the landfill. Previous landfill mining projects have shown …

Plastics have been the most consumed materials of human societies in recent decades and,
in the mean time, one of the major products obtained from landfill mining. Characteristics of …

In Europe over 5.25 billion tonnes of waste has been landfilled between 1995 and 2015.
Among this large amount of waste, plastic represents typically 5–25 wt% which is significant …

In the last decade landfill mining (LFM) has gained particular attention due to the possibility
of resource recovery from landfills. However, landfills consist mainly of soil-like material …

Abstract Rare earth elements (REEs), Platinum group metals (PGMs) and other critical
metals currently attract significant interest due to the high risks of supply shortage and …

Landfill mining (LFM) is excavating and processing legacy waste to recover secondary
resources. This study reviews the technologies used for excavation and processing of the …

Abstract Unscientifically Created Landfills and Dumps, UCLDs, pose a severe threat to
geoenvironment due to uncontrolled release of greenhouse gases and toxic leachate …